The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

[Since I wrote this, in 2018, our slide toward totalitarianism has not only accelerated, but become worse than that which Havel faced. Perhaps, though, as Lenin said, the worse, the better.]

Václav Havel's famous essay, born of a specific time and place, resonates decades later in our own proto-totalitarian society. What should be done? Havel tells us.

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Carl Schmitt's thoughts on the Roman Catholic Church, or rather that Church as it was a hundred years ago, and European political organization. History took a different turn, but as always, Schmitt has worthwhile things to say.

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Of Ethiopia—mostly of modern Ethiopia, a fascinating country. But what role is it likely to play in the future?

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The good, the bad, and the ugly about James Burnham's famous 1941 book.

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An analysis of Traditionalism, the set of beliefs offered by thinkers (from René Guénon to Julius Evola) who attempted to retrieve supposed ancient wisdom and apply it to the modern world. (This article was first published November 30, 2018.)

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Through the lens of a prophetic work of fiction, continuing the question of whether civilizational decline can be arrested and reversed, and thinking about the moral implications of actions related to that endeavor.

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A review that in effect passes judgment on all modern science fiction, with a slightly different tack from my usual. (This article was first published August 23, 2016.)

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A famous, but at best incomplete, analysis of the course of empires--with an emphasis on describing the end stages of empires.

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It was as a result of this discussion, of Three New Deals, that my program came to be called Foundationalism. And here, learning from movements of the past, I offer thoughts about how Foundationalism can be brought to pass (although I would be less negative about small-scale farming now; this article was first published November 26, 2018.)

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The third book in Jünger's (unrecognized) trilogy about tyranny—not in the abstract, but how to live in relation to, and what to do about, tyranny. Any relationship to current events in the West is pure coincidence, of course.

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